Luis Von Ahn

But the good news is that I don't think you have to.

See, here's the thing.

When you're learning something, you get meaning out of it.

whereas when you're scrolling for two hours on Instagram, a lot of times afterwards, you feel like you just wasted your time.

So I think it's actually okay if your educational product is only 80 or 90 percent as engaging as something like TikTok, because the other 10 or 20 percent will be provided by people's internal motivation, though of course, not much more than that.

This is really a key point.

If we want to get people to do something

meaningful.

You can use the same techniques that apps like social media use to get people to do it.

And even if you're not as engaging as those apps are, you can still get hundreds of millions of people to use your product.

In the case of Duolingo, for example, there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the United States than there are people learning languages across all US high schools combined.

And this is true in most countries in the world.

My hope is that, I know we can do this, but my hope is that as humanity, we can do what Duolingo has done for learning languages, but for all other subjects, where we can get people to learn math with mobile phones, like millions of people to learn math with mobile phones, or physics or whatever.

I hope for a future in which screen time is not a bad thing, in which we can deliver high-quality education to everyone, rich or poor, using a mobile phone.

But the single most important thing that I can end this talk with is a reminder to please, pretty please, I beg you, do your language lessons today.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think in particular subjects that are learned through repetition, and it turns out most things that are kind of really meaningful are learned through thousands and thousands of repetitions.

You learn to read

Through repetition, you learn elementary school math.